Wretha

Last seen for girls in 1943 at #3,801

Peak · girls
1907 · 6 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
206
since 1904

Wretha over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wretha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201920peak #1,821, 1907girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1943#3,8017
1942#3,7387
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1925#4,4266
1924#3,3939
1923#3,9717
1922#5,0095
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1919#3,4528
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First appearance
1904

The first year at least five girls were named Wretha! It came in at #1,877, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1904–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Wretha is popular in 1920

No state had 5 or more girls named Wretha in 1920, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wretha
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1943
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1904
  • Peaked 1907 at #1,821 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1909, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 53,094
  • Highest: 1 in 53,094 girls born in 1907 were named Wretha (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 199,328 girls born in 1943 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 31.6% of all girls named Wretha (65) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s21#1,821 (1907)#1,933
1910s50#2,384 (1915)#3,224
1920s65#3,097 (1920)#3,950
1930s49#3,109 (1933)#3,519
1940s21#3,559 (1941)#3,699

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wretha in 1920

girls
#3,097
10 births · 1 in 119,829 girls

Top girls' names in 1920

  1. #1Mary70,983
  2. #2Dorothy36,643
  3. #3Helen35,097
  4. #4Margaret27,994
  5. #5Ruth26,102
  6. #6Mildred18,060
  7. #7Virginia17,314
  8. #8Elizabeth15,908
  9. #9Frances15,883
  10. #10Anna14,581
  11. #3,097Wretha10
More about 1920

girls

1,198,289 girls got a published name in 1920; 1 in 119,829 of them was named Wretha, which outranked 46.3% of the 5,767 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wretha
  1. #2,899Zennie11
  2. #2,899Zillah11
  3. #2,899Zoa11
  4. #3,097Wretha10
  5. #3,097Adina10
  6. #3,097Agusta10
  7. #3,097Alison10
  8. #3,340Adine9
  9. #3,340Adria9
  10. #3,340Adrianna9

Tied with 242 names at #3,097; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1919
Risers
  1. ↑ 550Denise#1,481 → #931
  2. ↑ 321Blossom#1,242 → #921
  3. ↑ 311Lilia#1,242 → #931
  4. ↑ 302Ena#1,270 → #968
  5. ↑ 277Lorayne#1,216 → #939
Fallers
  1. ↓ 594Haruko#917 → #1,511
  2. ↓ 511Roselle#1,000 → #1,511
  3. ↓ 345Toshiko#967 → #1,312
  4. ↓ 304Carroll#902 → #1,206
  5. ↓ 297Santina#835 → #1,132

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1920 →